thewiseguy
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sun Jan-17-10 01:41 PM
Original message |
Looter burned alive on the streets of Haiti (warning graphic pictures) |
TeeYiYi
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sun Jan-17-10 01:46 PM
Response to Original message |
azurnoir
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sun Jan-17-10 02:05 PM
Response to Reply #1 |
15. Actually the headline in your link reads |
|
Looter Killed & Burned by Haitian mob as Police Watchthe question then is was he burned alive or was he killed by the mob and then burned as bodies are now being burned http://www.edmontonsun.com/news/haiti/2010/01/15/12483586.htmlin any event that the Haitian police turned him over to a mob is an indication that Haiti is in chaos
|
TeeYiYi
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sun Jan-17-10 08:34 PM
Response to Reply #15 |
43. Not sure of your point... |
|
Edited on Sun Jan-17-10 08:45 PM by TeeYiYi
"The New York Times said “the police brought a man to Pétionville in the back of a pickup and informed a gathering crowd that he had been caught looting in another neighborhood, witnesses said. While the police officers stood by, an angry mob pulled the man from the truck.
The mob stripped the accused looter, then began beating him. They dragged him up the street while pummeling him, then threw him on a trash heap, where he lay vomiting and bleeding.
One man began piling trash on top of him and set it on fire. As the firelight flickered on an art gallery and a church on opposite sides of the street, dozens gathered to watch the man burn to death.”
He was alive and vomiting and bleeding when they lit him on fire to watch him BURN TO DEATH.
TYY
|
butterfly77
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sun Jan-17-10 09:49 PM
Response to Reply #43 |
48. Doesn't the same thing happen in America? |
|
Didn't someone just burn up a young woman in a dumpster in Miami last week?
|
TeeYiYi
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sun Jan-17-10 11:00 PM
Response to Reply #48 |
51. Perhaps. But, without any inclination of intent... |
|
... I am incapable of making an informed judgment.
TYY :shrug:
|
Craftsman
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sun Jan-17-10 01:47 PM
Response to Original message |
2. In crisis justice and be swith and brutal |
thewiseguy
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sun Jan-17-10 01:50 PM
Response to Reply #2 |
|
The police tipped off the crowd and handed this guy off to them so that they could punish him...
This is absolutely wrong.
|
Craftsman
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sun Jan-17-10 02:09 PM
Response to Reply #4 |
19. I have a friend who was in Katrina, she did not have guns before |
|
But is now armed like Poncho Via's army now. When the maturer of live and death for you and your family is measured in seconds, 911 is minute away. I have no mercy for looters.
|
GrantDem
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sun Jan-17-10 02:18 PM
Response to Reply #19 |
22. What evidence do you have that this man was a looter? |
Craftsman
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sun Jan-17-10 02:34 PM
Response to Reply #22 |
GrantDem
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Mon Jan-18-10 04:08 PM
Response to Reply #31 |
|
Guess that settles it then. We should adopt this here. Print a picture with a title and we can save billions of taxpayer dollars. Who needs juries???
:eyes:
|
a la izquierda
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sun Jan-17-10 07:28 PM
Response to Reply #19 |
39. First of all, it's Pancho Villa... |
|
second of all...oh, why bother?
|
Doremus
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sun Jan-17-10 07:35 PM
Response to Reply #39 |
40. You mean you don't know what "the maturer of live and death for you |
|
and your family is measured in seconds, 911 is minute away" means?
How silly of you!
:rofl:
|
a la izquierda
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sun Jan-17-10 08:46 PM
Response to Reply #40 |
46. Yeah, I guess I haven't had enough beer tonight... |
|
to figure that one out.:toast:
|
uppityperson
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Mon Jan-18-10 04:13 PM
Response to Reply #40 |
53. When the maturer of live and death for you and your family is measured in seconds,911 is minute away |
|
That should join whatever that was "until I explained the situation" thing in du lexicon. Doing community service
|
SammyWinstonJack
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sun Jan-17-10 08:36 PM
Response to Reply #19 |
bread_and_roses
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sun Jan-17-10 02:02 PM
Response to Reply #2 |
12. From what I've read, we can hardly rely on the Haitian police to be "just" - nor is this "justice" |
|
I am not sure what you meant by your post and I'm not attacking you - for all I know you are being ironic, I give you the benefit of the doubt.
We have no idea for sure that this was really even a "looter" and not some sort of revenge/retaliation. We also don't know if the man was "looting" for water or scraps of food. And even if he were acting for himself alone, trying to survive at the expense of others, even children, or seeking things to sell purely for gain, surely beating a man near to death and then incinerating him the rest of the way is not "justice" as we define it in civilized countries?
|
RedCappedBandit
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sun Jan-17-10 02:56 PM
Response to Reply #2 |
34. Don't use words you don't comprehend. nt |
nadinbrzezinski
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sun Jan-17-10 01:48 PM
Response to Original message |
3. But we have people screaming that we don't need no stinking |
|
security.
This is WHY.
What you guys think that desperate people will not do this to aid workers with no backup?
And no, this is not about Haiti... is is insert disaster here.
|
thewiseguy
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sun Jan-17-10 01:52 PM
Response to Reply #3 |
5. The security handed this guy to the mob so that they could punish him! |
Codeine
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sun Jan-17-10 01:53 PM
Response to Reply #5 |
7. The Haitian police are hardly the sort of security |
vadawg
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sun Jan-17-10 07:44 PM
Response to Reply #7 |
41. yup, in situs like this you need highly motivated and disciplined troops or militia |
|
who are willing to actually step in and stop the worst of the worst, hopwfully now the troops will be taking over the security and start to bring order..
|
nadinbrzezinski
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sun Jan-17-10 02:00 PM
Response to Reply #5 |
10. That is the local police, |
|
knowing Haitian history I am not surprised actually.
|
TeeYiYi
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sun Jan-17-10 01:53 PM
Response to Reply #3 |
6. Yeah, this is crazy... |
|
Did you read the story at the second link? It says that the "police" brought this man in the back of a truck and basically served him up to the angry gathering mob. Told them that this guy had been "looting" in another neighborhood.
What police? I had heard that the Haiti police were nonexistent.
TYY
|
nadinbrzezinski
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sun Jan-17-10 02:00 PM
Response to Reply #6 |
11. There IS police, a few of them, but there is |
FedUpWithIt All
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sun Jan-17-10 01:57 PM
Response to Reply #3 |
9. These people did this BECAUSE the aid has been so concerned with security. |
|
Edited on Sun Jan-17-10 02:00 PM by FedUpWithIt All
Read the article. They punished this man to show that they will not tolerate the looters that they think ARE SCARING AID WORKERS. http://kreyolnetwork.com/looter-killed-burned-by-haitian-mob-as-police-watch/01240?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitterThe slow and cautious is what caused this. People are now desperate. It is a travesty and it is only going to get worse.
|
nadinbrzezinski
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sun Jan-17-10 02:04 PM
Response to Reply #9 |
14. No it is not... you think crowds do not go nuts |
|
even in regular times? They do... look at a mall for early morning specials on Black Friday.
I know people do not want to see this, but humans can and do get nasty. And this has nothing to do with melanin content, or language spoken.
Now that they have enough troops to start moving in, they will.
Yes they said they had thousands of troops... well now they can start going up in tempo.
And you laugh, but that emphasis in security... comes from people actually dying trying to deliver aid in disasters... well intentioned, but dumb.
Or did you miss the two freelancers from the Dominican Republic who were shot yesterday? To me it was a reminder of why that security is such a necessity.
|
FedUpWithIt All
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sun Jan-17-10 04:19 PM
Response to Reply #14 |
|
Edited on Sun Jan-17-10 04:51 PM by FedUpWithIt All
the crowds did not get nasty until they went for more than 4 days without life giving necessities.
Edited to add that even after 4 days the majority stood calmly and patiently for food and water they desperately needed. Perhaps you underestimate the people who are actually watching their loved ones die.
I wonder how patient many here would be if forced to wait for LIFE SAVING water for their children. People cannot even be civil and patient on damned message boards.
A life is a life is a life is a life...whether it be an aid worker or an old man under some rubble. People would do well to remember this.
|
nadinbrzezinski
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sun Jan-17-10 07:23 PM
Response to Reply #35 |
38. acually early repprts of violence started two days ago |
|
and here is your free clue of the day... why do you think reporters pulled back to the airport at sundown every night?
They are mostly isolated... but they have been happening.
And let me ask you this... let's assume I went down there as a freelancer... out of the goodness of my heart... I am a trained paramedic. Forget about my family, but what good can I do if I am dead?
Yes that is the real calculus in insert disaster here. Not that my life is more valuable than yours, but protecting my skills at this moment is important so I can do some good.
|
here_is_to_hope
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sun Jan-17-10 02:04 PM
Response to Reply #3 |
13. Seems you will say anything to cover your ass. |
|
You don't get it, you never will..."you are everything we expect from years of government training..." Protocol and all, you know.
And whats with the "we" shit?
You crack me up. Air drops are not air drops unless you say they are.
Bent. Thinking. Yours.
|
nadinbrzezinski
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sun Jan-17-10 02:08 PM
Response to Reply #13 |
18. They're not.. they are short haul helicopter drops |
|
I guess the MEXICAN RED CROSS, an NGO, warped my mind.
And those 1500 hours of theory in disaster management and three disasters under my belt make me unqualified to have an informed opinion in this, exactly how dear?...
So exactly what are YOUR qualifications in this?
Oh yes, ye are part of the keyboard commando brigade... what we call tyhoid rumors.
|
Name removed
(0 posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sun Jan-17-10 02:29 PM
Response to Reply #18 |
|
Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.
|
nadinbrzezinski
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sun Jan-17-10 02:34 PM
Response to Reply #29 |
30. Yes we are... I deal in reality |
|
you deal in fantasy
And please, thank you for the ignore... after all, what gosh darn it, learn something?
What about three ACTUAL disasters are you missing?
|
stray cat
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sun Jan-17-10 02:19 PM
Response to Reply #3 |
24. Many DUers screaming that people will be nice and orderly are clueless |
|
even when the lights go out in NYC things deteriorate and lawlessness kicks in - let alone with the current desperation in Haiti. It amazes me how many DUers think everyone will politely share any resource dropped and will only steal from the wealthy and not just someone weaker than themselves.
|
nadinbrzezinski
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sun Jan-17-10 02:24 PM
Response to Reply #24 |
27. Mostly they have never been in a crisis situation |
|
and I wish them to remain to be clueless!!! To a point
During the great blackout I was in Cleveland visiting for a family event. Lights go out, I took out the portable I always travel with. It took me two minutes to realize this was not just local. And another five to get sis, BIL and my husband in car on the way to get batteries, water, flashlights and a few other essentials...
As they say, training kicked in and it became how do I keep my nephew, still a baby, my parents and a few others relatively safe.
So we got to the store well ahead of the locals and the locals looked at us a crazy tourists... well we had water, clean water, food and batteries. Other hotel guests did not.
Then we had another problem... sanitary. Flushing toilets... they could not get water up. pumps... so we ended telling the hotel how to deal with that... POOL water and carts....
|
FedUpWithIt All
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sun Jan-17-10 04:57 PM
Response to Reply #27 |
36. Some of us were doing and worrying about such things at 11. |
|
Don't minimize the opinions and concerns of others based on narrow assumptions of their experience.
|
nadinbrzezinski
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sun Jan-17-10 07:19 PM
Response to Reply #36 |
37. In general people don't, and that is the challenge of |
|
emergency managers... that people in general do not have any idea how to survive in a crisis, and bless their hearts, they make assumptions about human nature.
The other reality is that most people have an attitude that this cannot happen to me.
I am happy you do by the way...
Keep it up.
|
Baclava
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Mon Jan-18-10 05:50 PM
Response to Reply #24 |
55. This is true. Civilization ends when the power goes out. |
|
They really must not have liked that guy.
|
Jennicut
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sun Jan-17-10 02:27 PM
Response to Reply #3 |
28. Security is a must, I don't get why more people here don't understand that. |
|
I have never worked in a disaster area but I have worked with certain types of populations having a psych degree and I have been in some not so good situations. Desperate people will do desperate things.
|
nadinbrzezinski
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sun Jan-17-10 02:35 PM
Response to Reply #28 |
32. Middle class lives, fairly protected and they truly believe |
|
Edited on Sun Jan-17-10 02:37 PM by nadinbrzezinski
this is a movie or a conspiracy.
Reach for your degree....
Let me add a little about the middle class lives. Anderson Cooper said something very revealing about the mindset... he did not honestly realize that a compound fracture could kill in 72 hours from generalized sepsis. Think about it... you got one, you go to the trauma center, they clean it in the OR and pump you full of antibiotics... chances are, in a well equipped hospital it is a serious injury, but highly survivable.
|
Jennicut
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sun Jan-17-10 08:30 PM
Response to Reply #32 |
42. Yes, many live in a world that they think is like the movies. |
|
I have dealt with some people who turned very violent although you would not know just by looking at them. All races, both sexes, different ages. You never know how people will react in a difficult situation. I even worked with troubled boys. Restraining a strong 12 year old is harder then it looks.
|
nadinbrzezinski
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sun Jan-17-10 09:51 PM
Response to Reply #42 |
49. Try a three year old that needs sutures |
Jennicut
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sun Jan-17-10 09:58 PM
Response to Reply #49 |
50. I believe that, my own 4 year old does not want me to touch her boo boos. |
malaise
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sun Jan-17-10 01:56 PM
Original message |
BunkerHill24
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sun Jan-17-10 02:06 PM
Response to Original message |
16. truly disgusting. I hope this is just an isolated incident. nt |
Parker CA
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sun Jan-17-10 01:56 PM
Response to Original message |
abelenkpe
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sun Jan-17-10 02:07 PM
Response to Original message |
peacetalksforall
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sun Jan-17-10 02:12 PM
Response to Original message |
20. I'm sorry, we have no proof that his man looted or if he looted, who he looted. |
|
The story is missing in English and you didn't provide a translation.
This is an unfinished story.
|
fishnfla
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sun Jan-17-10 02:19 PM
Response to Reply #20 |
Turborama
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sun Jan-17-10 02:21 PM
Response to Reply #20 |
26. The Toronto Star have this story in English |
|
Edited on Sun Jan-17-10 02:21 PM by Turborama
|
stray cat
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sun Jan-17-10 02:17 PM
Response to Original message |
21. There is a reason people are worried about security when people are desperate |
|
and government has virtually collapsed. Even without life threatening need the lack of any governance and law and order means survivial of the fittest or vigilante justice or both
|
nadinbrzezinski
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sun Jan-17-10 02:20 PM
Response to Reply #21 |
25. Human nature and crowd dynamics is fascinating to watch |
|
but what a lot of very well meaning people are ignoring is that the book was written with blood, and that yes human nature can at times be very dark indeed.
And it does not matter what melanin content or what language the crowd speaks.
|
HysteryDiagnosis
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sun Jan-17-10 02:36 PM
Response to Original message |
33. Thank the heavens above that we don't have "swift justice" in |
|
the U.S. http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/la_governor_warns_troops_will_/Katrina: Governor Orders Troops to Shoot and Kill Looters James Joyner | Friday, September 2, 2005 Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco has ordered the National Guard to “shoot and kill” looters in New Orleans.
|
TxRider
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Mon Jan-18-10 04:38 PM
Response to Reply #33 |
54. I've been told since I was kid, NG will shoot to kill looters |
|
This was standard stuff for the hurricane prone gulf coast through the 60's and 70's when I was growing up.
Looters can be shot on sight.
Not something I ever intend to test. We do what I was taught and stock up food and water for at least 2 weeks and haven't had an issue. We were also always taught from the 60's as kids, that relief would take a week or two to arrive and start feeding us and providing water.
Why people think it can always happen in a day or two is beyond me.
|
proteus_lives
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sun Jan-17-10 08:39 PM
Response to Original message |
45. Sad but not surprising. |
|
Stuff like these happens in disaster areas.
|
Sultana
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sun Jan-17-10 09:10 PM
Response to Original message |
DU
AdBot (1000+ posts) |
Thu Apr 25th 2024, 12:41 PM
Response to Original message |